Best New Bands » San Diego https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Artist of the Week: Delta Spirit https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-delta-spirit/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-delta-spirit/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:58:33 +0000 San Diego-born, Brooklyn-based Delta Spirit have enjoyed steady degree of success since their formation, but this could be the year that the band becomes less of journeyman outfit into an outfit that cements itself into the psyche of music fans. Since the release of their self-titled, third full-length album, was the band’s highest charting to

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  1. Delta Spirit To Finish Its Tour On A High Note For Long Beach, California-based outfit Delta Spirit, practice truly does make perfect. Their second full-length album, History From Below, was the group’s first album to appear chart on the Billboard Top 200 and is a tangible sign that the band’s...
  2. Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey...
  3. Delta Spirit Leads A Spiritual Revival In San Francisco The floor was shaking, hands were raised to the sky and the man on the microphone was pontificating emphatically as sweat rolled down his furrowed brow. Was I in the Abyssinian Baptist Church celebrating a revival? I might as well have...
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  1. Concert Preview: See Verity in Stereo Play this Saturday in Asbury Park, New Jersey! If you’re in the Jersey area, you are in luck.  This Saturday, May 7th, our former Artist in Residence Verity in Stereo will be taking the stage at Asbury Park! Details are after the jump… Doors open at 7 (Its...
  2. Concert Preview: Lady Danville Headlines a Sold Out Show at the Troubadour this Saturday Lady Danville, everyone’s favorite indie-rock-nerd-chic UCLA grads, returns to headline a sold out show at the Troubadour this Saturday, the 26th.  Lucky for me, I will be in attendance.  Lucky for you, this means a review will follow, so you...
  3. Concert Review: White Denim with Allah-Las Leaves The Echo in a Beautiful Daze White Denim minus new guitarist Austin Jenkins Excitement abounded for me last night, a perfectly average Wednesday in May, as I headed down to The Echo to see one of my favorite bands, White Denim.  As you might’ve heard (read?)...
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  1. ANNOUNCING THE BEST SONGS OF 2010! Your voices have been heard, fair readers,and here are the Top Ten Songs of 2010, according to YOU! #10: “SILVIA” BY MIIKE SNOW AND “AIRPLANES” BY LOCAL NATIVES– TIE In an interview with Todd Prodanovich last September, Local Natives band...
  2. The Weekend Playlist: Michael Rincon’s Songs for Fall Season   This picture is the image I get when I think of fall in my desert landscape home of Lancaster California. The turning colors of the leaves, the sudden drop in temperature and the re-introduction of sweaters and jackets complete...
  3. Weekend Playlist – Best Songs of 2010 photo credit: Sherene Hilal Before we count down to 2011, we’re picking out some of the best songs of 2010. Which was your favorite? Vote now for your favorite song of 2010! “Rope” – ArpLine In an interview with Sherene...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/new-range-rover-songs-barely-used/feed/ 0 San Diego’s Transfer Make Their Own Fate https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/san-diegos-transfer-makes-their-own-fate/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/san-diegos-transfer-makes-their-own-fate/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:00:00 +0000 Transfer first got on the radar of myself and many others as the opening act for Brandon Flowers, which you can read about HERE. I enjoyed the San Diego rock band very much, but I also a little embarrassed that such an amazing band had eluded me. Fronted by Matthew Molarius on guitar, Jason Cardenas,

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  2. Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey...
  3. Q&A: Doris Cellar of Freelance Whales When people hear Craigslist experiences, they only think of the gloom and doom that could occur from these chance meetings. But fortunately for Queens, New York-based Freelance Whales, the results couldn’t have gone more swimmingly. The band’s name is derived...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/san-diegos-transfer-makes-their-own-fate/feed/ 0 Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/delta-spirit-rock-the-music-box-and-a-conversation-with-matthew-vasquez/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/delta-spirit-rock-the-music-box-and-a-conversation-with-matthew-vasquez/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0000 At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey Theatre, this was a big step up for the band in terms of venue size.

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  2. A Conversation With James Petralli of White Denim Sometimes a name can be an accurate way to describe a band. But with White Denim, it is not. Something as simple as, well, white denim, doesn’t do the band’s eclectic combination of garage rock, dub soul, alt-rock, country and...
  3. The Music to Mend Fences Yesterday, I was able to talk on the phone with Christopher Mansfield, aka Fences. The Seattle-based singer-songwriter has put out some of my favorite records in the last two years: The Ultimate Puke EP and the Sara Quin (of Tegan...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/delta-spirit-rock-the-music-box-and-a-conversation-with-matthew-vasquez/feed/ 0 Shiny Toy Guns DJ Set Goes Off with Guests White Apple Tree and Buddy Akai https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/shiny-toy-guns-dj-set-goes-off-with-guests-white-apple-tree-and-buddy-akai/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/shiny-toy-guns-dj-set-goes-off-with-guests-white-apple-tree-and-buddy-akai/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:03:58 +0000 The vote was rocked last night at the benefit concert held at the Echo in Los Angeles for proposition 15. Buddy Akai started things off around 9:30 with their mix of electro and rock that definitely warmed up the eager crowd. Everyone was ready for the electronic sounds of the Shiny Toy Guns DJ set

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  2. Dirty Sweet @ Spaceland, 7/16/09 Well, it took almost exactly two years, but I have finally made it to a second Dirty Sweet show. I’d say that it was worth the wait, but honestly I wish I’d made it out to see them again sooner....
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/shiny-toy-guns-dj-set-goes-off-with-guests-white-apple-tree-and-buddy-akai/feed/ 0 Dirty Sweet @ Spaceland, 7/16/09 https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/dirty-sweet-spaceland-7-16-09/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/dirty-sweet-spaceland-7-16-09/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:32:00 +0000 Well, it took almost exactly two years, but I have finally made it to a second Dirty Sweet show. I’d say that it was worth the wait, but honestly I wish I’d made it out to see them again sooner. “Born to Bleed” and one more song When I led the charge in booking them

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/20-questions-with-john-shipe/feed/ 0 John Shipe at The Gypsy Den in Santa Ana https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/john-shipe-at-the-gypsy-den-in-santa-ana/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/john-shipe-at-the-gypsy-den-in-santa-ana/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:00:00 +0000 John Shipe, a good friend of mine from Eugene, has been parked in San Diego for the last six months, and he finally played a couple of shows in Orange County recently. His shows on January 30th and March 6th at the Santa Ana location of The Gypsy Den, were characteristically solid. John is a

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